Tilley

Wikipedia and Wikidata report founder Alex Tilley sold the company to UK-based Hilco Capital in 2015, which transferred it in 2018 to Gibraltar & Company, a Toronto entity associated with Joe Mimran's Unity Brands; the Canadian storefront's footer reads 'Tilley Canada'. Corporations Canada's federal registry returned zero results for Tilley Endurables, Unity Brands, and Gibraltar & Company, consistent with provincial incorporation, and the Ontario Business Registry search requires JavaScript that this fetch tooling could not execute, so no registry filing was checked directly.

• Tilley Endurables - Wikipedia · press “Sold to Hilco Capital in 2015; transferred to Gibraltar & Company in 2018”
• Tilley Endurables (Q3528523) - Wikidata · press “headquarters location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada”
• Federal corporation search results - Tilley Endurables · registry record “0 results were found, 0 returned.”

The vendor's own Made in Canada page says its hats in that collection 'are cut, sewn, and built in Toronto, Canada' and names long-tenured factory staff, but the Made in Canada collection is one of roughly twenty product collections on the site, so most of the wider apparel, bag, and sock lines appear to be sourced elsewhere. The CANADA List corroborates a mixed picture, listing a Tilley sock product as Canadian-owned but 'manufactured in Turkey'. The split between the Toronto-made and imported lines is this agent's estimate from product-line count, not a disclosed revenue or unit split.

• Made in Canada - Tilley · the vendor's own site “our Made in Canada hats are cut, sewn, and built in Toronto, Canada”
• Supply chain - Tilley · the vendor's own site “forced labour or child labour is used at any step in the production of our goods in Canada or elsewhere, including items that Tilley imports into Canada”
• The CANADA List · directory “Ownership (Country): Canada; Manufacturing (Countries): Various / Asia; Notes: Canadian-owned; manufactured in Turkey”

Headquarters and the hat factory are both in Toronto, and the vendor names Toronto-based plant staff on its Made in Canada page; the Canadian and US contact pages both list Eastern time support hours, suggesting one shared team. A separate US storefront (tilley.com) makes some US-based staff plausible, but no US office, warehouse, or headcount was found, so this is an estimate rather than a disclosed split.

• Made in Canada - Tilley · the vendor's own site “23 pairs of skilled hands for every hat”
• Tilley Endurables (Q3528523) - Wikidata · press “headquarters location: 60 Gervais Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada”

The vendor's sustainability page commits to low-impact materials by 2027 and cites bluesign and OEKO-TEX certifications but does not name fabric or material origin countries, and no other page disclosed input sourcing. Given most manufacturing outside the Made in Canada hat line appears to be offshore (per the manufacturing factor), materials are assumed to follow that pattern toward Asia and other offshore sourcing, with smaller Canadian, US, and European shares; this is an estimate, not a disclosed figure.

• Sustainability - Tilley · the vendor's own site “By 2027, more than 75% of our collection will only be made using low impact materials”